MOVIE REVIEWS
Now showing around town… maybe streaming.
Hagiography 101
The King of Pop’s long-gestating, much re-shot biopic finally lands and Michael is exactly the biopic you should expect.
Roads to Perdition
You can’t accuse Óliver Laxe of lacking the courage of his narrative convictions when it comes to Sirāt.
Feeling So-so
It may feel like a day in a dark theatre given how deliberate A New Dawn can be.
Truth in Advertising
Kristoffer Borgli manages to partially deconstuct a thorny subject for us non-Americans in The Drama.
What Finish Line?
Pegasus 3 is exactly the same movie as Pegasus and Pegasus 2, so at least there’s no disappointment.
Image is Everything
Now this… We’re Nothing at All is the Herman Yau we’ve all come to know and love.
Just Go With It
The Secret Agent is a demanding watch, but it’s also a really, really rewarding one.
More Like Extreme
You may care about ping pong as much as Chalamet cares about opera, but Marty Supreme is one of his best.
All ‘Hail’
If competency porn is high on your entertainment score card, then Project Hail Mary has it all over.
Play Like a Girl
Directors Veronica Bassetto and Sophie Yang might have futures as game designers if Gamer Girls goes belly up.
I Mos Def Prefer
If this were the 2010, Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride! would rate a hearty "Yass Queen!”
Prison Vibes
Gavin Lin’s Sunshine Women’s Choir is treacly hokum and completely ridiculous. It’s Taiwan’s biggest local hit ever.
Girls Being Girls
Tracy Choi’s Girlfriends makes for a nice middle entry in what, fingers crossed, might be a smart, sapphic trilogy.
‘Double’ Vision
Liu Kuan-ting and Jennifer Yu suffer wedding day emotional mania in Joseph Hsu’s surprisingly engaging Double Happiness.
Literally Toxic
Not sure what it means if date night is Wuthering Heights, but hey. Whatever works.